From Ritual to Romance

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie Laidlay Weston, independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts (1850-1928)


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Table of Contents

-01- About This Book

-02- Preface

-03- Introductory

-04- The Task Of The Hero

-05- The Freeing Of The Waters

-06- Tammuz And Adonis

-07- Part I. Tammuz

-08- Medieval And Modern Forms Of Nature Ritual

-09- The Symbols

-10- The Sword Dance

-11- The Medicine Man

-12- Appendix To Chapter Viii

-13- The Fisher King

-14- The Secret Of The Grail

-15- The Secret Of The Grail 

-16- Mithra And Attis

-17- The Perilous Chapel

-18- The Author

-19- Notes

-20- Appendix